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Dale wrote: |
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> meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>> |
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>> Next shot in the dark: |
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>> Some monitors can be asked to offer their physical data like |
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>> resolution and such. It is called EDID or something like that. |
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>> May be the BIOS (or the graka) tries to ask the monitor about its EDID |
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>> data and the return is "The sound of Silence" ... or something more |
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>> weird and misunderstandable... |
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>> |
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>> And the graka hangs and therefore the BIOS waits forever for the graka |
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>> and Dale waits forever for monitor... ;) |
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>> |
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>> When booted with a "talking and correctly speaking EDID" monitor the |
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>> garak is setup correctly and everything is fine. |
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>> If you are using a nvidia-card use the nvidia-settings tool when |
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>> haveing switched the monitors the "bad way" ;) and in the nvidia |
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>> settings tool you will find the possibility to "Acquire EDID" (a |
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>> button). Do this with the new monitor to check whether it talks EDID |
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>> correctly. |
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>> Two things I would try to fix the problem: |
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>> Boot into the BIOS and check, whether "First VGA" (this is how it is |
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>> called in my BIOS) is set to the correct bus type/card. In my case it |
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>> has to be set to PCIe. |
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>> Any may be you will also find a setting to instruct the card to |
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>> acquire EDID data from the monitor. Toggle this. |
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>> HTH! |
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>> Best regards, |
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>> mcc |
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>> |
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> |
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> I will try that next. Right now, I unplugged the power from the |
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> EV910. It has been unplugged for a while now. I'm hoping it will |
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> reset something in the monitor itself. |
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> I'm pretty sure this monitor has EDID but I'm not certain. I looked |
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> and the EV910 is actually a little newer than the EV700. The EV910 |
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> was made in 2001 and the EV700 was made in 2000. Pretty old huh? |
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> I really don't want to use this old 17" monitor but I also don't want |
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> to have to buy a new one either. :/ |
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> Now to reboot and see if it works. If not, I'll check the BIOS |
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> setting next. I checked that earlier and I think it is set has you |
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> wrote tho. I'll make sure tho. |
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> Thanks. Will write in a bit whether it changes anything. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Neither of those worked. It did nothing on the EV910. |
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Any more ideas? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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